From: Grégoire PARIS Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:42:43 GMT Subject: Re: Re: dotfiles in git template dir are not copied Message-ID: <2bae8d8a-f0bf-fa8b-8ce4-6880d3490b43@greg0ire.fr> In-Reply-To: <20170217204411.2yixhuazgczxmmxa@sigill.intra.peff.net> > You could, for example, have your template directory itself be a git repository. I can and I do and indeed, that might be the reason behind this. I made a PR to document this : https://github.com/git/git/pull/325 -- greg0ire